Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Respect for continuity in law, where reasons for change are wanting, alone requires adherence to ... other decisions. Especially ought the Court not to reenforce the instabilities of our day by giving fair ground for the belief that law is the expression of chance-for instance, of unexpected changes in the Court's composition and the contingencies in the choice of successors...
...detailed report in the current A.M.A. Journal on the status of anti-histaminics, now being sold over the counter without prescription, the A.M.A.'s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry says: "The patient may have been mistaken in his belief that he was getting a cold; he may have been manifesting the symptoms of an allergy, or his cold may have aborted without the aid of any therapeutic agent...
...control of Catholic judgment on the Church, as well as on "foreign affairs, social hygiene, public education and modern science," rejoined Jesuit Hartnett, is not a matter of Catholic political power but of the Catholic faith which Blanshard claims to respect. "It just so happens to be the personal belief of every Catholic that Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, empowered the hierarchy to apply moral judgments to all areas of human conduct, social as well as private. One of the rude errors of this whole thing is the impression that the bishops are herding the people around. People are Catholics...
Lilienthal warned that "wallowing in fear" does not prepare the U.S. for war, but plays into the hands of the Communists. "The belief that security can be gained by making bigger and better bombs is a mountainous error...
Woman's lot these days is not a happy one, White says, and her education is to blame. Her colleges, founded during the first flush of feminism, were modeled after men's, and the belief persisted that "higher education is something like spinach which can profitably be absorbed without reference to the gender of the absorbent...